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1 A Letter From a Birmingham City Jail

2 A Brief History of the Civil Rights Movement 1896: Supreme courts hears cases Plessy vs. Fergusson, in which they rule that "separate but equal" is constitutional even in publicly funded works, i.e., segregation is ruled legal.

3 A Brief History of the Civil Rights Movement 1896: Supreme courts hears cases Plessy vs. Fergusson, in which they rule that "separate but equal" is constitutional even in publicly funded works, i.e., segregation is ruled legal. 1947: Jackie Robinson makes his Major League Baseball debute. 1948: President Truman bans racial discrimination in the U. S. Military.

4 A Brief History of the Civil Rights Movement 1896: Supreme courts hears cases Plessy vs. Fergusson, in which they rule that "separate but equal" is constitutional even in publicly funded works, i.e., segregation is ruled legal. 1947: Jackie Robinson makes his Major League Baseball debute. 1948: President Truman bans racial discrimination in the U. S. Military. 1954: Supreme courts hears Brown vs. Board of Education and unanimously rules that "separate but equal" is unconstitutional.

5 A Brief History of the Civil Rights Movement 1954: Supreme courts hears Brown vs. Board of Education and unanimously rules that "separate but equal" is unconstitutional. 1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus. Parks, along with Martin Luther King Jr. and others, lead a boycott over one year long of the city bus system. 1957: Arkanasas governor prevents nine blacks for entering a Little Rock High School. The National Guard on orders from President Eisenhower intercedes. 1962: James Merideth, University of Mississippi's first black student arrives; riots ensue. President Kennedy sends 5,000 national guard to end the riots.

6 A Brief History of the Civil Rights Movement 1963: Martin Luther King Jr. arrested in Birmingham while protesting segregation. He writes his famous letter in that jail.

7 A Brief History of the Civil Rights Movement 1963: Martin Luther King Jr. arrested in Birmingham while protesting segregation. He writes his famous letter in that jail. 1964: Civil Rights Act of 1964 illegalizes racial and religious discrimination.

8 A Brief History of the Civil Rights Movement 1963: Martin Luther King Jr. arrested in Birmingham while protesting segregation. He writes his famous letter in that jail. 1964: Civil Rights Act of 1964 illegalizes racial and religious discrimination. 1964: It has been a decade since Brown vs. Board of Education. Segregation is still a major issue in the South. King and others are still organizing protests.

9 A Brief History of the Civil Rights Movement 1963: Martin Luther King Jr. arrested in Birmingham while protesting segregation. He writes his famous letter in that jail. 1964: Civil Rights Act of 1964 illegalizes racial and religious discrimination. 1964: It has been a decade since Brown vs. Board of Education. Segregation is still a major issue in the South. King and others are still organizing protests; violence against civil rights workers. 1965: Barriers to voting, such as literacy tests and poll taxes, are banned by congressional act. 1968: Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray.

10 King's 1963 Letter To Whom is King's letter addressed?

11 King's 1963 Letter To Whom is King's letter addressed? "My dear Fellow Clergymen" What charges of theirs is he answering?

12 King's 1963 Letter To Whom is King's letter addressed? "My dear Fellow Clergymen" What charges of theirs is he answering? That his actions are "unwise and untimely."

13 King's 1963 Letter Why is King in Birmingham and why is he in jail?

14 King's 1963 Letter Why is King in Birmingham and why is he in jail? He was arrested for protesting segregation; he had agreed to be there to assist civil rights workers in Birmingham.

15 King's 1963 Letter Why is King in Birmingham and why is he in jail? He was arrested for protesting segregation; he had agreed to be there to assist civil rights workers in Birmingham. Furthermore, he is there to combat injustice. He says that "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice anywhere."

16 King's Program of Direct Action King and others in the civil rights movement advoacated nonviolent "direct action". What's non-violent direct action? What are alternatives to non-violent direct action?

17 King's Program of Direct Action King and others in the civil rights movement advoacated nonviolent "direct action". What's non-violent direct action? What are alternatives to non-violent direct action? Why did they advocate it instead of alternatives?

18 King's Program of Direct Action Alternatives to non-violent direct action: "Negotiation" Violence

19 King's Program of Direct Action Alternatives to non-violent direct action: "Negotiation" Violence King's program calls for four steps: 1. Fact gathering

20 King's Program of Direct Action Alternatives to non-violent direct action: "Negotiation" Violence King's program calls for four steps: 1. Fact gathering 2. Negotiation

21 King's Program of Direct Action Alternatives to non-violent direct action: "Negotiation" Violence King's program calls for four steps: 1. Fact gathering 2. Negotiation 3. Self-purification

22 King's Program of Direct Action Alternatives to non-violent direct action: "Negotiation" Violence King's program calls for four steps: 1. Fact gathering 2. Negotiation 3. Self-purification

23 King's Program of Direct Action Alternatives to non-violent direct action: "Negotiation" Violence King's program calls for four steps: 1. Fact gathering 2. Negotiation 3. Self-purification 4. Direct Action

24 Objections to King's Program Still, isn't negotiation best? Yes, says King: "Nonviolent direct action seeks to freate such a crisis and establish such a creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue."

25 Objections to King's Program Still, isn't negotiation best? Yes, says King: "Nonviolent direct action seeks to freate such a crisis and establish such a creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue." Notice a specter of Locke on revolution: it is not the revolutionaries but the government that is guilty of the first blow in the war. Likewise, it is the establishment that King protests that refuses negotiation.

26 Objections to King's Program The direct action is not well-timed.

27 Objections to King's Program The direct action is not well-timed. "I have never yet engaged in a direct action movement that was 'well-timed,' according to the time-table of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation."

28 Objections to King's Program The direct action is not well-timed. "I have never yet engaged in a direct action movement that was 'well-timed,' according to the time-table of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation." "We have waited more than 340 years for our constitutional and God-given rights."

29 Objections to King's Program The direct action is not well-timed. "I have never yet engaged in a direct action movement that was 'well-timed,' according to the time-table of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation." "We have waited more than 340 years for our constitutional and God-given rights." "I hope, sirs, you can understand our legitimate and unavoidable impatience."

30 Objections to King's Program King and his program advocates breaking laws.

31 Objections to King's Program King and his program advocates breaking laws. This is one of the most important objections to King because his response is both historically and philosophically important.

32 Objections to King's Program King and his program advocates breaking laws. This is one of the most important objections to King because his response is both historically and philosophically important. What's his basic response?

33 Objections to King's Program King and his program advocates breaking laws. This is one of the most important objections to King because his response is both historically and philosophically important. What's his basic response? He encourages breaking unjust laws, and "an unjust law is no law at all." (St. Augustine.)

34 Objections to King's Program Objection to the "unjust laws are no law at all" response: who's to judge when a law is unjust? This objection is really important. We can't simply allow whomever to decide which laws they will and won't follow. King gives three criteria for justice of laws.

35 First Criterion of Just Law The "natural law" criterion: A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

36 Second Criterion of Justice The "equal protection" criterion: An unjust law is a code that a mjority inflicts on a minority that is not binding on itself. This is difference made legal. On the other hand a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow that it is willing to follow itself.

37 Third Criterion of Justice The "democratic" criterion: An unjust law is a code inflicted upon a minority which that minority had no part of enacting or creating because they did not have the unhampered right to vote.

38 The Law King broke was also unjust Some laws are unjust on their face, some in their application: Now there is nothing wrong with an ordinance which requres a permit for a parade, but when the ordinance is used to preserve segregation and to deny citizens the First Amendement priviledge of peaceful assembly and peaceful protest, then it becomes unjust.

39 Law does not make something right Everything Hitler did was "legal."

40 Law does not make something right Everything Hitler did was "legal." the purpose of law is the promotion of justice. Those who place law and order above justice make a mistake.

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